Los Angeles-based artist Tyler Christopher Brown creates sculptures and installations that interrogate the tension between personal autonomy and the institutional frameworks that shape social and political life. Working with materials sourced from the everyday built environment—fragments of American muscle cars, musical instruments, tools of labor, found clothing, and remnants of industrial production—Brown reappropriates the objects and symbols of capitalism to expose the entangled systems of economic inequality, racialized desire, and global imperialism. Informed by the legacy of Arte Povera, his work transforms the ordinary into a site of critique, revealing the absurdities embedded in our collective pursuit of meaning.
The vine becomes a central conceptual and material motif—an unruly tangle of history, a living archive of social duress from which the fauna of dispossession and the music of exclusion inevitably emerge. Double consciousness functions as a critical lens, allowing him to navigate dualities of identity, language, and mythology. By deploying double entendres and strategies of absence, his work underscores what remains unsaid, inviting viewers to confront the gaps in dominant narratives and reconsider the veracity of collective memory. In Brown’s practice, materiality becomes a language a means of both resistance and revelation.
Tyler Christopher Brown is an artist living and working between Los Angeles and New York. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022 and his BFA from Hunter College in 2019. His work has been shown at galleries and institutions including Fragment Gallery, M+B, SculptureCenter, among others. He has participated in residencies at the Fountainhead in Miami (2024) and the Monira Foundation in Jersey City (until the end of 2025), and has been involved in various curatorial and charitable initiatives.